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Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace
19 quotes
Quotes
- “One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go ...”
- “If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain t...”
- “It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would not go...”
- “Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now beli...”
- “Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was...”
- “The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is wher...”
- “In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep...”
- “Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.”
- “You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
- “If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”
- “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
- “It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.”
- “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
- “Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.”
- “He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.”
- “Everything I know, I know because of love.”
- “Life did not stop, and one had to live.”
- “We are asleep until we fall in Love!”
- “God is the same everywhere.”